ARCHILETTERS

From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of
making the “underground” visible, a construction devised as a radical
manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of
Rivas’ youth groups in particular.

The project aspires to become an explicit “teen” communication vehicle
by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of
the project. In this way, the project’s team embraces all Rivas’s youth
groups by means of an open participation process, in which the future
users of the center, combined with technicians and politicians, will
contribute their decisions, their concerns, their fantasies and their
aesthetics to create a contemporary “social monument”.

The end result of this process is a public structure with a punk
spirit, intensely burdened with content and articulated around
programmatic centers conceived as activity explosions, which are
erected as meeting and exchange points of the emerging communities.